Christian Ludwig Leonhard Gey (27 June 1838,

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- 21 September 1894,

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) was a German history painter and art professor.

Life and work

His father, , was a Royal Court opera singer. From 1854 to 1856, he was enrolled at the Technical University of Hanover, where he was a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Later, he studied in

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, Berlin and Dresden, where he worked in the studios of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. In 1884 he became a Professor. After 1888, he was the head of the master classes in Drawing from Life at the

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. In addition to his paintings, he created several murals, in halls at Marienburg Castle (1860–63) and at Albrechtsburg, where he executed a wall mural showing Augustus, Elector of Saxony, and his wife Anne addressing the people of Meissen (1877). Another mural, depicting the announcement of the Peace of Westphalia, at the town hall in Osnabrück (1880), was destroyed during

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. In 1928, a street in Dresden's district was named after him.Straßen Strehlen
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References

* Wilhelm Rothert: ''Allgemeine Hannoversche Biographie. Hannoversche Männer und Frauen seit 1866.'' Vol.1, Hannover 1912 *

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1838 births 1894 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German history painters German muralists Academic staff of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts Artists from Hanover Painters from Lower Saxony {{Germany-painter-stub